I love simple nail designs. Not only are they simple, time efficient, but also versatile with respect to the potential color palette one can use.

For this design, I was in the mood for something different using warm colors. I chose a yellow and an orange red. For this design, you also need a dotting tool (or a toothpick if you don’t have dotting tools) and scotch tape.

The first step is to cut large sections of scotch tape. Now, this may sound weird, but you will need to place these sections either on the back of your hand or somewhere else on your body for about 5 minutes. This is to remove the adherent from the tape just enough so that it wont stick to the nail polish already on the nail bed, but retain a bit of its stick. Trust me, it sounds odd, but works! While the tape is sticking, lay down one or two coats of your lighter nail shade of the two. Let this dry completely. Meanwhile, you can cut the tape into sections long enough for your nails.

Place the tape sections on the nail covering either the bottom or top half of your nail. This will be the section that will retain the lighter nail color shade. As you can see if my pictures, I alternated the darker shade on some of my nails. You can do this, or keep all the colors uniform.

Next, you want to paint about 2-3 nails at a time with a thick coat of the darker shade. Right after the nails are painted remove the tape (with tweezers or your fingers). Repeat this step until all of your nails are painted. Let this coat dry. Next you want to take a dotting tool and place a large dot in the middle of the nail along the median of two nail colors. You can choose a dark black or anything you want for this central dot. Then, on the opposite nail color, place three dots making a half circle on the inverse color.

Hope you enjoy this and let me know if you have any questions!